TagClouds in Pure JavaScript.
I recently had the bright idea to create a nice tag cloud application in pure JavaScript and power it via an XML file, and/or a backend (such as an RDBMS).
Then someone pointed me to Kang-min Liu’s Widget.TagCloud implementation.
Dammit.
Well, Kang-min’s version does not pull cloud information from an XML file or a database. Instead it uses “array of hash.” Basically an array containing JSON data or Object declarations.
I may modify his application to include both of these. In one route I can use DOM methods to load an XML file for parsing, on the other, to keep it purely JavaScript, as in, no HTML document containing a form, I would have to use an XMLHttpRequest to coordinate data from the database.
We’ll see…